Clarion 1942-01-27 Vol 21 No 09

THE BETHEL CLARION
Vol. XXI No. 9 BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.) Jan. 27, 1942
Program Features
2 All-Americans
Action and All-American speak-ers
are the big features of the
Sophomore - sponsored Football
night, this Friday. at eight o'clock.
Francis "Pug" Lund and "Babe"
LeVoir are expected to speak.
"Pug" Lund has definitely pro-mised
to speak on his experiences
as a member of Minnesota's cham-pionship
football squad. As the
Clarion goes to press "Babe" Le-
Voir, due to previous business en-gagements,
has not given the com-mittee
a definite answer.
Other considerations for speak-ers
are Sheldon Beise, former all-
American and now U. of M. back-field
coach, or Dr. George Hauser,
Bernie Bierman's first assistant.
Tickets are now being sold by
various students. The ticket com-mittee's
motto is "All Bethel,
and Baptists, out for Football
Night!".. Warren 'Magnuson is
chairman of this affair.
Photographer, Memorial,
Funds Interest Earnest
Sophomores
According to the motion made at
the last Sophomore business meet-ing,
President Youngquist appoint-ed
an inter-class committee con-sisting
of sophomores and semi-nary
seniors, to check various
studios' and come to a decision as
to which one the two classes and
the Spire will patronize.
On the committee are: Bernard
Hammerbeck, Warren Johnson,
Marvin Toews, and Nelton Friesen-borg.
The committee considering a
suitable memorial to be left by the
class has not turned in any definite
report as yet, although one favor-able
suggestion has been a new
desk in the library.
Visitor's Day, May 1, has tenta-tively
been set aside as the date
on which the Sophomores will pre-sent
a musical panorama of Ameri-can
music and its relationship to
national affairs. The patriotic
theme offers much opportunity for
swiftly moving, individualistic en-tertainment.
Any Bonds Today?
Are you helping our country in
its all-out effort to defeat its
enemy? There is a way in which
everyone of us can be of aid to our
government. Bethel, like most
other schools, has Defense Bonds
as well as Savings Stamps of 10.c
and 25c denominations for sale in
the school office. The school ad-ministration
is encouraging this
drive as a means of defending the
spiritual and democratic principles
(Continued on page 4)
Missionary
Forced Back
Zam Zam Survivor
Speaks for Miss'y Band
Miss Sylvia Oiness, a survivor of
the ill-fated Zam Zam, stirred the
hearts of the listeners at the Mis-sionary
Band meeting Tuesday
evening, January 20, as she por-trayed
a word picture of her peri-lous
journey last spring.
Miss Oiness related in clear,
vivid terms how she left New York
on March 20, 1941 for her first
term as a missionary in Nigeria.
To avoid being attacked by Ger-man
submarines, the ship sailed in
complete blackout when in the war
area. The 120 missionaries had
their daily prayer meetings and a
Sunday evening vesper service on
deck.
At 5:45 A. M., April 17, the sleep-ing
passengers were awakened by
the violent vibrations as a shell
from a German surface raider tore
off the captain's quarters. Al-though
the wounded were scream-ing
and crying everywhere, not
one of the missionaries was struck.
The days spent on the "Dresden"
were filled with horror; extreme
filth was accompanied by insani-tary
plumbing. Each person was
given a spoon, an enamel bowl
and a tin cup from which he ate
his meager diet of billboard paste,
jam, oily tea, black rotten bread,
and bean soup flavored with cock-roaches
and weevils. While the
ship was in the tropics, the passen-gers
almost suffocated in their
stuffy rooms where they were con-fined.
Although all of the American
missionaries were allowed to re-turn
home on June 21, Canadian
and British missionaries were sent
to concentration camps as prison-ers
of war.
God's protection was seen in
rainbows which appeared four
times during the trip.
Miss Oiness' missionary message
was preceded by the Northwestern
Bible Institute quartette which
sang several numbers.
Albert Lea Is Goal of
All School B. B. Trip
An opportunity to see the Bethel
Albert Lea game on the thirteenth
of February is being made avail-able
to the student body through
the auspices of the Student Coun-cil.
As yet no public announcement
has been made. Tickets are sold
to the students at cost to the school
and no profit is realized on the
event.
In the past the Bethel student
body has vied eagerly for coveted
tickets, of which there have been
only a limited amount. Early de-mand
for tickets may enable the
Council to alleviate such a situa-tion
this year.
The band and other entertain-ment
units cooperate with the rival
school to put on special acts at the
half.
Czech Presents Own Book
To Seminary Collection
In Seminary Chapel last Thurs-day,
Rev. Vaclav Voita, of the
Checkoslovakian Baptist Church,
Minneapolis, brought a message on
the history of Baptists in Bohemia.
He presented to the Seminary li-brary
his recently published book,
"Baptists in Checkoslovakia."
This 275 page book relates the
Baptist history of this section of
Europe from the first part of the
fourteenth century until the pre-sent.
Material was laboriously
gathered throughout the country.
Rev. Voita, a former student of
Bethel Seminary, wrote this book
as his Bachelor of Divinity thesis
for the class of '40. This is the
first book published on this sub-ject
and is the second seminary
thesis to be published.
DVBS Workers Needed
All students who are interested
in teaching in Daily Vacation Bible
Schools next summer are asked to
communicate with Miss Sabel as
soon as possible.
Last summer over fifty students
conducted or taught in Bible
schools, and already several
churches have put in requests for
workers next summer. 'Some stu-dents
taught only two weeks, and
others taught all summer. All go
without promise of remuneration
because they know they are doing
the Lord's work and because they
need experience in that kind of ser-vice.
Miss Sabel recommends that all
who plan to teach, enroll in the
class in Daily Vacation Bible
School Methods held once a week
in the Seminary on Friday after-noons
at one o'clock. Miss Sabel
Clearwaters Lectures
On Bible Exposition
The Swedish Baptist pastors of
this state are holding a conference
which is being held in Bethel's
seminary chapel this week. Such
outstanding speakers as Gipsy
Smith, Dr. W. B. Riley, and Rev. R.
V. Clearwaters will highlight the
program.
Except for the evening sessions
which will be held in the First Bap-tist
Church - of Minneapolis in con-junction
with Gipsy Smith's ser-vices,
all of the meetings will be
held in the seminary chapel begin-ning
Tuesday morning at 9:15 and
continuing through Thursday noon.
The schedule features Rev. R. V.
Clearwaters of the Fourth Baptist
Church of Minneapolis, who will
give a series of Bible expositions
at 9:15 each morning; the rest of
the morning will be given over to
some of our own state pastors.
The climax of the whole confer-ence
will be messages by the
world-famed Gipsy Smith and Dr.
Riley, two of the foremost Christ-ian
leaders of the country.
The pastors who come to the
conference from various parts of
the state will be entertained by
the Swedish Baptists of the cities.
The sponsoring committee has
hopes that in years to come this
conference will be an annual re-treat
for the pastors of the state.
Dr. Judd Lectures
On Eastern Crisis
"We built Japan up into a Fran-kenstein
of a monster. We sold
her scrap iron with which to
strengthen her forces ... and kill
our Chinese friends and now be-cause
Japan has fired on us we
protest." Such was the gist of the
message given by Walter Judd in
a recent convocation service.
Japan claimed a population pro-blem.
There never has been such
a problem in Japan. That country
is capable of producing all her own
foodstuffs, and until the present
war caused a labor shortage, did
so.
Natural resources are of vital im-portance
to Japan, especially be-cause
of her lack of them. How-ever,
she has to date not felt a
need of oil. Every drop of oil in
Japan proper, and that used in her
war machine has been supplied by
(Continued on page 4)
also recommends the class in Child
Evangelism held Monday evenings
in the Women's Dormitory. There
are no training requirements, how-ever.
Gipsy Smith, Dr. Riley Speak
For Ministerial Conference
Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
editoitial
Yell King
The Bethel school spirit, in a
whirlwind attempt to overcome its
dormant condition, burst out of its
casket at a recent pep-fest in the
person of Paul Larson.
A rather sad note was sounded
by the band, "Father" Al Walker,
and the pallbearers, who intend-ed
to bury the Spirit. The student
body lost its reserve when it
rallied behind Paul as he burst
forth amid gun shots and much
applause.
The new "yell king" taught the
students a few hearty and tricky
yells which were used very effec-tively
during the Rochester game.
Orchids to Paul Larson, our new
cheerleader, who showed every-body
that Bethel's spirit is not
dead—it was just in a stupor.
In a recent interview with Paul,
he said, "Without the support of
the students body, the yell leader
is absolutely useless .. "
To those of you who growl the
loudest when the games are lost
. or indifferent, we send a chal-lenge
to support a lad whose en-thusism
would infect the Sphinx.
(And we haven't seen a Bethelite
yet who could keep still a thousand
years.)
Meditations
by Paul Lundgren
Those of us who heard Miss
Oiness, I am sure, were deeply
stirred by her message which por-trayed
so vividly the suffering and
he horrors of war. As I listened I
became conscious of the fact that
I needed to ask myself the ques-tion
that God had asked Cain of
old. "Where is thy brother?". As
I meditated I could see him in the
concentratidn camps, in war-de-vastated
lands starving and shiver-ing
with the cold, at the battle.
Dr. Bucher drew our attention
to the thought that this calamity is
caused to a large extent, by "en-lightened,"
peace and liberty-lov-ing
Westerners, who have been
negligent in watching and directing
their "brother". Joseph Smith of
Burma came even closer to the
root of the matter when he plead-ed,
while home on furlough some
years ago, "Send us 10,000 mission-aries
or in 10 years you will be
sending ten thousand to fight."
We failed to find our brother for
Christ and woe be unto us if we fail
to stop him in battle. Where is
thy brother?" is a question that we
as Christians need to face more sin-cerely
than before. We need to
face it in relation to the world at
large in meeting the responsibili-ties
that will come during and after
this war, but we face the problem
in a more definite way than that.
Where is thy brother—the neigh-bor
at thy side Where does he
stand in relation to his God? Does
he grasp the problems of life in the
light of God's Word or is he steep-ed
in some man-made materialistic
philosophy that will carry him into
(Continued on page 3)
Bibles Appreciated
Bethel, as a Christian school,
has been in need of Bibles in
the dormitory rooms for some
time. On January 13, fifty
Bibles were presented to the
school for use in the two dor-mitories..
The donation was made by
Mr. Nuveen, a prominent Chris.
tian business man of Chicago.
Mr. Nuveen has been instru-mental
in reaching many home
mission fields with the Scrip-tures.
Recently, however, his
attention has turned to the
work of placing Bibles in the
dormitories of Christian schools
in this area.
We wish to express the deep
appreciation of both faculty and
students for this gift and we
pray that the Lord will bless Mr.
Nuveen's work as he continues
placing Bibles.
An Humble Tribute
by A. J. Wingblade •
Mrs. August Wingblade came to
this country from Sweden in the
early years when everyone was
busy building America. Father had
preceded her by a few years and
was pretty well established when
she arrived.
To cross the Atlantic in those
days was considered a hazardous
journey. No one had seriously
thought of flying as a practical
means of ocean travel, but a bridge
across the turbulent waters was
the dream of many a timid emi-grant.
No bridge, however, was
built and all who came did so by
ship after spending several weeks
on the sea.
New York was then looked upon
as a marvel in size and population.
Some newcomer reported in 1880
that in that city one could find
buildings as high as eleven stories!
What would those people say now
if they could see modern buildings
over 100, stories in height! Brook-lyn
bridge had not yet been built.
Horsecars were still the mode of
travel and it would take hours in
these unheated vehicles to "go
places" in those early days.
Most newcomers were westward
bound and continued on by train as
far as the trains went and then
by stage coach or by river barge or
on foot to their final destination.
Our parents proceeded on to Atchi-sen,
Kansas, where the train cross-ed
the Missouri River by ferry and
then proceeded loo, miles farther.
Thus the immigrants arrived in
their new homes on the plains and
began to work and build. They
also joined forces with the small
pioneer church here and thus gave
their children spiritual nurture.
Mother was a thoroughly reli-gious
soul (as was Father). She
believed in the efficacy of prayer.
The most commonplace matters as
well as the most marvelous an-swers
to prayer.
She had early learned to love
the church and the kingdom.
While she was still a girl the re-vival
spirit swept over her home
community in Sweden. When
OLYMPIAN
From the misty gray of dawning
cold
To the early gray of evening old
We slave.
We find the news and dump it out
What care we if rabbles rout . .
We can run!
ROSES IN DECEMBER
He sent her flowers. Three
dozen roses. Red roses signify—
well.
She waited all vacation for him
to drop in. He never showed up.
AROMA AND SMELLING
.."Hello. Is your building located
between Aroma and Smelling . . .
I thought so. It stinks!"
And how! We hear the place
was blue with fumes Saturday
night after the "Rocky" game. A
culprit . . some ferric sulfide . . .
and a pungent sense of humor.
HELSING'S TUNE
"Sorry, folks, we're out of gas!"
This time it happened on the Men-dota
bridge about two in the wee
hours.
Sometimes we wonder
Indeed we do,
If the things we hear
Are really true.
FOR INSTANCE
That Miss Johnson "fell for a
certain someone at the Frosh skat-ing
party.
That Howie Olson "blitzed" the
party with 17 skating partners.
(From the gals we hear he's "all-right!
!")
coldness and lethargy prevailed
among the religious leaders of the
country and persecution followed
any effort to arouse the conscious-ness
of men to greater piety and
Christlike living, the revival fires
burned brightly here and there.
Many heard the call of the Spirit
and among these was Mother.
After entering upon this Way,
she set her face steadfastly. All
That Mrs. Nylof was sufficient
to the task of breaking up the "Get
your man" club last Saturday as its
first (and last?) session convened
in cell 212 and continued thru the
bewitching hour.
DONN E RB L ITZ EN
He was walking along the Sem
building . . minding his own busi-ness,
you understand .. . . when
pop! and we mean bottle, smack
atop his head!
ON THE TRAIL
The girls were talking (as
usual). Each gal bragged up her
own state. Suddenly all eyes were
on Betty White. "Yea, but you
should see Colorado!"
N. Z.—"Oh, Colorado's a no
man's land."
B. W.—"Sure, why did you think
I came up here!"
FASTEST THING ON RAILS
Five girls hanging over the ban-nister
at the girl's dorm working
up "steam" over Al Walker, as
Dean Johnson listened to their loco-motive.
(Unknown to them of
course.'
SAVAGELY SPEAKING
We've raised our warhoop
Scalped the lot
We've wasted word
And not gun-shot.
Pass the peace-pipe
Send it round,
Then bury it under
An Indian mound.
—by CHIEF ASKME and
BRAVE ILLTELL
her days she lived a thoroughly
consecrated life. In the home, in
the church and community, she
made her influence felt.
. This brief tribute is paid to a
devoted mother, a loyal Christian,
a faithful follower of the Master.
Her course is now finished. In
glory we shall see her "in the
morning."
—A. J. Wingblade.
Warhoop by Wahoo
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Published by students every other Tuesday
except In July and August.
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Peterson, Elbert Walker, Charlotte Sandin, June Hedman, Betty
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THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
I am not writing of Time in the
abstract, such as is shared by all
living things, but of YOUR time,
that which belongs to you as an in-dividual
and for which you alone
are responsible.
Each one of us is alloted a cer-tain
amount of time; this amount
is fixed and is as definite a quanity
as anything else you might pos-sess..
It, however, is not like your
other possessions such as goods or
money. You may have a certain
amount of money in the bank, and
when you have spent this, you may
by your own efforts obtain more,
You may be wasteful with your
possessions because you know
there is more to be had.
Not so with your time. You can-not
say. "I will add one year or one
hour to my life." Some have of-.
fered a King's ransom for a few
hours of life, but life cannot be
purchased. True, we say that by
careful living we can prolong life,
but this does not change the mat-ter
for in God's sight who knows
the end from the beginning, your
history is already written. Nor is
this "fatalism". God has not de-creed
that anyone shall live so
many years and no more, no less,
It simply means that God knows
the span of your life.
Then, too, you may get more
money than you need; You may
accumulate a surplus of money,
food, or clothing. Not so with
YOUR TIME. You do not know
nor do you have any way of finding
out how much time is at your dis-posal;
nor can you control its tlow.
It is being measured off to you in
seconds, minutes, hours days,
weeks, months, and years. Day
and night, while you wake, while
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time goes on. You may stop the
clock but the meter of time ticks
on just the same.
The amount of time at your dis-posal
may be a few short years,
or it may be three score years and
ten and even four score years yet
only a small portion of these years
are suitable for working out your
life span.
The first ten years are carefree
and irresponsible years. In these
years you have, unconsciously, ac-cumulated
a great store of know-ledge
about things in general but
without ,coordinatiion. In the next
ten years, you discover your in-dividuality
and begin your dicta-torship.
While for the most of
you the cares of life still rest upon
father and mother, you have ideas
and plans of your own; the future
stretches out long before you and
time means little to you.
The next twenty years are years
of adjustment. The duties of life
have been thrust upon you; the
safeguards which were thrown
about you in the first twenty years
are now withdrawn and you begin
to realize that there are other peo-ple
in the world besides yourself.
Expectations makes the beginning
of these years joyous and wonder-ful.—
still time means little, you
have lots of it ahead of you so it is
often spent recklessly.
We have said that these were
years of adjustment for they are
largely spent in doing and undoing
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what you have planned and what
you have undertaken. A feeling of
maturity and realization of age and
the seriousness of life may sudden-ly
come upon you. It may come
through some unexpected respon-sibility
placed upon you by your
success or your failure. It may
come throngh some great sorrow,
"Life is like that." You have now
used forty years of your allotment.
If your span is three score years,
you have now only one third of it
left in, which to finish your life's
work. If you have done your best,
the next ten or even twenty ad-ditional
years which may be grant-ed
you, will bring a rich reward for
your labors. Do you see how valu-able
YOUR TIME is and why you
should be careful how you use it?
And while you are realizing the
value of YOUR time, do not forget
that those with whom you asso-ciate
have a like responsibility as
yourself. Be careful not to encour-age
them to waste THEIR time.
But it is a more serious matter to
rob them of their time by impos-ing
yourself upon them, perhaps at
the telephone, in their room, on in
the library. Be courteous; find
out whether the friend has time
which he ought to spare for your
visit. Your friend may gladly
share the candy with you but he
would not expect you to eat the
whole box! So with his time. If
he grants yon an hour, don't take
the whole evening.
Some time, you may have to pro-tect
yourself. If some one were
taking your money you would not
hesitate to remind his that it is
yours. So it is with your time.
All of your friends are courteous,
but not all of them are thoughtful.
So, if your friend is taking time that
should be given to your duties you
should have the courage to kindly
tell him that you have work that
must be done and that you will
have to continue the visit some
other time. If he is a good friend,
he will respect your wishes and re-spect
you for preventing him from
doing a thing which he would not
knowingly do. Thus we can "bear
one other's burdens" and there will
be time to play and a time to work
and the joy of life will be fuller
and sweeter.
Yours affectionately,
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Editors Note: Copied from the paper of a sister Christian school.
Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Indians Sock
Austin 37-35
Jubilant, but not overconfident,
over their Rochester win, the
Bethel boys travelled south to Aus-tin
for their first Conference tilt
on a foreign court. Notwithstand-ing
the fact that they were not on
their home floor, the fighting In-dians
came through with a 37-35
victory over their hosts. This
victory coupled with Concordia's
57-55 loss at the hands of a strong
Worthington team placed the In-dians
and their backyard Concor-dia
rivals in a tie for second place.
The contest proved to be one of
the most thrilling tilts ever played
by a Bethel team as the Adam men
clicked to perfection to run up a
first quarter lead of 17-6. The
Austin lads were far from licked
though, and behind their pace-set-ter,
Gavin, they retaliated with a
stunning second quarter rally to
send them into a 23-21 halftime
lead.
The entire second half found the
two teams fighting furiously for
the lead with the score never more
than two points apart. The Austin
quintet knotted the count at 35-all
with just one minute to play.
In a scuffle that followed, the
Meatpackers again gained posses-sion
of the ball and set up a de-liberate
passing attack in hopes
of gaining a free throw. The plan
was of no avail however. , as Gene
Nyman tied up the opposing cen-ter
with just ten seconds of play-ing
time left.
In the jump that followed. "Pud"
Anderson grabbed the ball for the
Indians and threw downcourt to
Shine Swanson who let fly with a
shot from far out in the court
that split the hemp for an all-im-portant
two points that meant vic-tory
. The game ended before the
Austin men could put the ball into
play.
Austin (35) (37) Bethel
Haskins (16) Swanson
Gahagan (2)
(7) Anderson
Decker (7)
(14) Nyman
Johnel (9)
Finke
Gavin (17)
Halvorson
For Austin—Stevens, White; for
Bethel—E. Johnson, Lawrence.
Any Bonds Today
(Continued from page 1)
upon which this country was
founded. The faculty has been co-operating
wonderfully in buying
bonds as well as a great many
savings stamps. Don't forget to
see Mr. 11 E. Nelson at your
earliest convenience to buy your
share of "Bonds and Stamps for
Freedom."
Free Throws
Alarm Coach
Despite the fact that the Bethel
hoopers have lost two ball games
so far this season, one by a rather
decisive margin, they nevertheless
lead their opponents in total points
scored according to official figures
released following the Austin game.
In the six games included the
Bethelites ran up an aggregate
score of 260 points or 43.3 points
per contest while holding their
opponents to 223 counters or 37.2
points per tilt.
Undoubtedly the most alarming
item (to Coach Bill Adam at least)
is the fact that the Indians have
countered only 36 points from the
free throw line from 84 attempts.
This is a percentage of only .428.
Their opponents, on the other
hand, have dunked 45 tosses out of
99 chances for a percentage of .455
which isn't a great deal better.
The Bethelites also lead in per-sonal
fouls committed with 90 mis-cues
charged against them in the
six games while their opponents
have committed only 75.
Fast-breaking Glen Swanson con-tinues
to lead the squad in indivi-dual
scoring with an impressive
total of 102 point or an average
of seventeen points per game.
Next in line is pivotman Gene
Nyman with 53 counters. Haddon
Anderson leads in the personal
fouls column with fifteen fouls
charged against him.
Below is a summary of the
figures through the Austin game
listing field goals, free throws
made, free throws attempted, total
points, and personal fouls.
FG FTM FTA TP PF
Swanson 46 10
22 102 13
Nyman 20 13
27 53 12
Anderson 12 5
13 29 15
E. Johnson 11 3
6 25 14
Halvorson 8 1
2 17 11
Lawrence 8 1
4 17 7
Hammerbeck 3 1
1 7 1
Gustafson 3 0
0 6 3
Finke 1 1
2 3 8
Thompson 0 1
4 1 4
Bergerud 0 0
3 0 1
G. Johnson 0 0
0 0 1
Meditations
(Continued from page 1)
a situatiion similar to which the
revengeful and power-mad philoso-phy
has brought our other "bro-ther?"
"Where is thy brother?" But at
the root of that question lies
another. The same that God
asked Adam, "Where art thou?"
Art thou at the altar interceding
for thy brother? Art thou in the
highways and 'byways seeking for
thy brother? It is good to stop
and consider how we could serve
God and our fellow-men if we were
found faithful to our task, but it is
also well to consider the result of
our negligence when we are found
wanting in this point.
CONFERENCE STANDINGS
AS OF JAN 20th
Albert Lea 2 0 1.000
Worthington 1 0, 1.000
BETHEL 2 1 .667
Concordia 2 1 .667
Austin 1 1 .500
Luther 1 2 .333
Rochester 0 1 .000
Bethany 0 3 .000
Debaters at Work
Those students actively engaged
in forensic activities are looking
forward to the Red River Valley
Tournament to be held in Concor-dia.
College, St. Paul, February 4,
5, and 6. A trip will be made to
Moorhead in February. Debaters
showing the most promise and
conscientious study of the question
will be allowed to go.
Fifty Join Frosh
More than fifty skaters joined in
the fun arranged by the Freshman
on January 16. Three of the group
were hailed as "sports grande."
They were the three occupants of
"No Man's Land."
Howie Olson proved the Beau
Brummel of the evening and skated
with seventeen girls. Lidia Hau-ser
finally got her speeders under
control and blitzed the rink with
various partners. Paul Theobald
and Jeanette Jenister almost re-ceived
a speed ticket, besides a
lecture!
Hot chili and coffee were served
in the girl's dormitory after the
skating session had been ad-journed.
Dr. Judd
(Continued from page 1)
the U. S., Britain, and the Nether-lands.
War in China by Japanese forces
has enjoyed any success it has
achieved, thanks to Allied oil and
iron. It is Britain, America, and
the Netherlands who have made
China suffer.
When Japan entered China the
U. S. should have been warned. An
independent friendly China was es-sential
to American protection
from Russia and Japan.
China was only first base in the
tremendous ball game Japan
planned. The Asiastic-continent
was the second base. Complete
naval control of the Pacific and
Pacific land was her third goal.
Her home run base? America of
course.
Dr. Judd suggested in deep irony
that giving California, Oregon, and
Washington to the Japanese would
satisfy them—at least till they had
settled the land, "I think the
Japanese could make something
even of California if they were
given the chance." said Dr. Judd,
after commenting on Oriental in-dustry.
Medico Fall
Places Indians
Paul Larson Introduced
As Booster Club Leader
Bethel's rejuvenated hoopers
jumped right back into the confer-ence
race last week as they came
through with their first conference
victory over Rochester. It was
with a new spirit that the Bethel-ites
chalked up a 43-30 win over
the Rochester quintet. Not only
did the ,.hoopers come ((through
with a well-earned victory but the
student body turned out behind
their new yell king Paul Larson
and vocalized heartily in a fine
display of organized cheering.
The game began with Bethel tak-ing
the lead and continuing to hold
an edge over the Medicos through-out
the first quarter. Coach
Adam's quintet retired at the half
with a 21-14 lead over the visitors,
but a determined third quarter
rally narrowed the margin to just
four points before the Indians
really turned on the heat.
It was at this time that the
Indian forward line of Shine Swan-son,
and "Pud" Anderson and Gene
Nyman really went to work and in
short order boosted the Bethel lead
to thirteen points as the final gun
went off.
Leading the scoring attack for
the Bethelites was Shine Swanson
with 18 points and Gene Nyman
with 12 counters. Outstanding
point-getter for the visiting Medi-cos
was Skyhawk who totalled 8
points.
Rochester (30) .... .. (43) Bethel
Lenton (5)
(18) Swanson
Skyhawk (8)
(8) Anderson
Costello (3)
(12) Nyman
Starz Finke
Britzins (5) Halvorson
For Rochester — Murphy (1),
Bannon (1), Zimmerman (6), Ja-cobson
(6) ; for Bethel—G. John-son,
Thompson, E. Johnson.
SPECIAL
0. K. Dane Larson . . . we won't
mention Saturday and all day Sun-day
to Charlotte!
COMING BB GAMES
Jan...30 Sioux Falls JC there
" 31 *Worthington JC there
Feb. 5 Macalester Frosh "
" 7 *Bethany JC here
" 10 Farm School here
" 13 *Albert Lea tC there
" 18 *Concordia JC there
" 27 *Bethany JC there
" 28 *Luther JO there
* Conference games.
For years Japan has used Hitler
as a stooge for enticing American
attention from the Pacific ocean
'while she armed herself for the
tempest to come. American negli-gence
and indifference in dealing
with the foreign situation may be
held as great a cause in the pre-sent
war as Axis aggressiveness.

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THE BETHEL CLARION
Vol. XXI No. 9 BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.) Jan. 27, 1942
Program Features
2 All-Americans
Action and All-American speak-ers
are the big features of the
Sophomore - sponsored Football
night, this Friday. at eight o'clock.
Francis "Pug" Lund and "Babe"
LeVoir are expected to speak.
"Pug" Lund has definitely pro-mised
to speak on his experiences
as a member of Minnesota's cham-pionship
football squad. As the
Clarion goes to press "Babe" Le-
Voir, due to previous business en-gagements,
has not given the com-mittee
a definite answer.
Other considerations for speak-ers
are Sheldon Beise, former all-
American and now U. of M. back-field
coach, or Dr. George Hauser,
Bernie Bierman's first assistant.
Tickets are now being sold by
various students. The ticket com-mittee's
motto is "All Bethel,
and Baptists, out for Football
Night!".. Warren 'Magnuson is
chairman of this affair.
Photographer, Memorial,
Funds Interest Earnest
Sophomores
According to the motion made at
the last Sophomore business meet-ing,
President Youngquist appoint-ed
an inter-class committee con-sisting
of sophomores and semi-nary
seniors, to check various
studios' and come to a decision as
to which one the two classes and
the Spire will patronize.
On the committee are: Bernard
Hammerbeck, Warren Johnson,
Marvin Toews, and Nelton Friesen-borg.
The committee considering a
suitable memorial to be left by the
class has not turned in any definite
report as yet, although one favor-able
suggestion has been a new
desk in the library.
Visitor's Day, May 1, has tenta-tively
been set aside as the date
on which the Sophomores will pre-sent
a musical panorama of Ameri-can
music and its relationship to
national affairs. The patriotic
theme offers much opportunity for
swiftly moving, individualistic en-tertainment.
Any Bonds Today?
Are you helping our country in
its all-out effort to defeat its
enemy? There is a way in which
everyone of us can be of aid to our
government. Bethel, like most
other schools, has Defense Bonds
as well as Savings Stamps of 10.c
and 25c denominations for sale in
the school office. The school ad-ministration
is encouraging this
drive as a means of defending the
spiritual and democratic principles
(Continued on page 4)
Missionary
Forced Back
Zam Zam Survivor
Speaks for Miss'y Band
Miss Sylvia Oiness, a survivor of
the ill-fated Zam Zam, stirred the
hearts of the listeners at the Mis-sionary
Band meeting Tuesday
evening, January 20, as she por-trayed
a word picture of her peri-lous
journey last spring.
Miss Oiness related in clear,
vivid terms how she left New York
on March 20, 1941 for her first
term as a missionary in Nigeria.
To avoid being attacked by Ger-man
submarines, the ship sailed in
complete blackout when in the war
area. The 120 missionaries had
their daily prayer meetings and a
Sunday evening vesper service on
deck.
At 5:45 A. M., April 17, the sleep-ing
passengers were awakened by
the violent vibrations as a shell
from a German surface raider tore
off the captain's quarters. Al-though
the wounded were scream-ing
and crying everywhere, not
one of the missionaries was struck.
The days spent on the "Dresden"
were filled with horror; extreme
filth was accompanied by insani-tary
plumbing. Each person was
given a spoon, an enamel bowl
and a tin cup from which he ate
his meager diet of billboard paste,
jam, oily tea, black rotten bread,
and bean soup flavored with cock-roaches
and weevils. While the
ship was in the tropics, the passen-gers
almost suffocated in their
stuffy rooms where they were con-fined.
Although all of the American
missionaries were allowed to re-turn
home on June 21, Canadian
and British missionaries were sent
to concentration camps as prison-ers
of war.
God's protection was seen in
rainbows which appeared four
times during the trip.
Miss Oiness' missionary message
was preceded by the Northwestern
Bible Institute quartette which
sang several numbers.
Albert Lea Is Goal of
All School B. B. Trip
An opportunity to see the Bethel
Albert Lea game on the thirteenth
of February is being made avail-able
to the student body through
the auspices of the Student Coun-cil.
As yet no public announcement
has been made. Tickets are sold
to the students at cost to the school
and no profit is realized on the
event.
In the past the Bethel student
body has vied eagerly for coveted
tickets, of which there have been
only a limited amount. Early de-mand
for tickets may enable the
Council to alleviate such a situa-tion
this year.
The band and other entertain-ment
units cooperate with the rival
school to put on special acts at the
half.
Czech Presents Own Book
To Seminary Collection
In Seminary Chapel last Thurs-day,
Rev. Vaclav Voita, of the
Checkoslovakian Baptist Church,
Minneapolis, brought a message on
the history of Baptists in Bohemia.
He presented to the Seminary li-brary
his recently published book,
"Baptists in Checkoslovakia."
This 275 page book relates the
Baptist history of this section of
Europe from the first part of the
fourteenth century until the pre-sent.
Material was laboriously
gathered throughout the country.
Rev. Voita, a former student of
Bethel Seminary, wrote this book
as his Bachelor of Divinity thesis
for the class of '40. This is the
first book published on this sub-ject
and is the second seminary
thesis to be published.
DVBS Workers Needed
All students who are interested
in teaching in Daily Vacation Bible
Schools next summer are asked to
communicate with Miss Sabel as
soon as possible.
Last summer over fifty students
conducted or taught in Bible
schools, and already several
churches have put in requests for
workers next summer. 'Some stu-dents
taught only two weeks, and
others taught all summer. All go
without promise of remuneration
because they know they are doing
the Lord's work and because they
need experience in that kind of ser-vice.
Miss Sabel recommends that all
who plan to teach, enroll in the
class in Daily Vacation Bible
School Methods held once a week
in the Seminary on Friday after-noons
at one o'clock. Miss Sabel
Clearwaters Lectures
On Bible Exposition
The Swedish Baptist pastors of
this state are holding a conference
which is being held in Bethel's
seminary chapel this week. Such
outstanding speakers as Gipsy
Smith, Dr. W. B. Riley, and Rev. R.
V. Clearwaters will highlight the
program.
Except for the evening sessions
which will be held in the First Bap-tist
Church - of Minneapolis in con-junction
with Gipsy Smith's ser-vices,
all of the meetings will be
held in the seminary chapel begin-ning
Tuesday morning at 9:15 and
continuing through Thursday noon.
The schedule features Rev. R. V.
Clearwaters of the Fourth Baptist
Church of Minneapolis, who will
give a series of Bible expositions
at 9:15 each morning; the rest of
the morning will be given over to
some of our own state pastors.
The climax of the whole confer-ence
will be messages by the
world-famed Gipsy Smith and Dr.
Riley, two of the foremost Christ-ian
leaders of the country.
The pastors who come to the
conference from various parts of
the state will be entertained by
the Swedish Baptists of the cities.
The sponsoring committee has
hopes that in years to come this
conference will be an annual re-treat
for the pastors of the state.
Dr. Judd Lectures
On Eastern Crisis
"We built Japan up into a Fran-kenstein
of a monster. We sold
her scrap iron with which to
strengthen her forces ... and kill
our Chinese friends and now be-cause
Japan has fired on us we
protest." Such was the gist of the
message given by Walter Judd in
a recent convocation service.
Japan claimed a population pro-blem.
There never has been such
a problem in Japan. That country
is capable of producing all her own
foodstuffs, and until the present
war caused a labor shortage, did
so.
Natural resources are of vital im-portance
to Japan, especially be-cause
of her lack of them. How-ever,
she has to date not felt a
need of oil. Every drop of oil in
Japan proper, and that used in her
war machine has been supplied by
(Continued on page 4)
also recommends the class in Child
Evangelism held Monday evenings
in the Women's Dormitory. There
are no training requirements, how-ever.
Gipsy Smith, Dr. Riley Speak
For Ministerial Conference
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editoitial
Yell King
The Bethel school spirit, in a
whirlwind attempt to overcome its
dormant condition, burst out of its
casket at a recent pep-fest in the
person of Paul Larson.
A rather sad note was sounded
by the band, "Father" Al Walker,
and the pallbearers, who intend-ed
to bury the Spirit. The student
body lost its reserve when it
rallied behind Paul as he burst
forth amid gun shots and much
applause.
The new "yell king" taught the
students a few hearty and tricky
yells which were used very effec-tively
during the Rochester game.
Orchids to Paul Larson, our new
cheerleader, who showed every-body
that Bethel's spirit is not
dead—it was just in a stupor.
In a recent interview with Paul,
he said, "Without the support of
the students body, the yell leader
is absolutely useless .. "
To those of you who growl the
loudest when the games are lost
. or indifferent, we send a chal-lenge
to support a lad whose en-thusism
would infect the Sphinx.
(And we haven't seen a Bethelite
yet who could keep still a thousand
years.)
Meditations
by Paul Lundgren
Those of us who heard Miss
Oiness, I am sure, were deeply
stirred by her message which por-trayed
so vividly the suffering and
he horrors of war. As I listened I
became conscious of the fact that
I needed to ask myself the ques-tion
that God had asked Cain of
old. "Where is thy brother?". As
I meditated I could see him in the
concentratidn camps, in war-de-vastated
lands starving and shiver-ing
with the cold, at the battle.
Dr. Bucher drew our attention
to the thought that this calamity is
caused to a large extent, by "en-lightened,"
peace and liberty-lov-ing
Westerners, who have been
negligent in watching and directing
their "brother". Joseph Smith of
Burma came even closer to the
root of the matter when he plead-ed,
while home on furlough some
years ago, "Send us 10,000 mission-aries
or in 10 years you will be
sending ten thousand to fight."
We failed to find our brother for
Christ and woe be unto us if we fail
to stop him in battle. Where is
thy brother?" is a question that we
as Christians need to face more sin-cerely
than before. We need to
face it in relation to the world at
large in meeting the responsibili-ties
that will come during and after
this war, but we face the problem
in a more definite way than that.
Where is thy brother—the neigh-bor
at thy side Where does he
stand in relation to his God? Does
he grasp the problems of life in the
light of God's Word or is he steep-ed
in some man-made materialistic
philosophy that will carry him into
(Continued on page 3)
Bibles Appreciated
Bethel, as a Christian school,
has been in need of Bibles in
the dormitory rooms for some
time. On January 13, fifty
Bibles were presented to the
school for use in the two dor-mitories..
The donation was made by
Mr. Nuveen, a prominent Chris.
tian business man of Chicago.
Mr. Nuveen has been instru-mental
in reaching many home
mission fields with the Scrip-tures.
Recently, however, his
attention has turned to the
work of placing Bibles in the
dormitories of Christian schools
in this area.
We wish to express the deep
appreciation of both faculty and
students for this gift and we
pray that the Lord will bless Mr.
Nuveen's work as he continues
placing Bibles.
An Humble Tribute
by A. J. Wingblade •
Mrs. August Wingblade came to
this country from Sweden in the
early years when everyone was
busy building America. Father had
preceded her by a few years and
was pretty well established when
she arrived.
To cross the Atlantic in those
days was considered a hazardous
journey. No one had seriously
thought of flying as a practical
means of ocean travel, but a bridge
across the turbulent waters was
the dream of many a timid emi-grant.
No bridge, however, was
built and all who came did so by
ship after spending several weeks
on the sea.
New York was then looked upon
as a marvel in size and population.
Some newcomer reported in 1880
that in that city one could find
buildings as high as eleven stories!
What would those people say now
if they could see modern buildings
over 100, stories in height! Brook-lyn
bridge had not yet been built.
Horsecars were still the mode of
travel and it would take hours in
these unheated vehicles to "go
places" in those early days.
Most newcomers were westward
bound and continued on by train as
far as the trains went and then
by stage coach or by river barge or
on foot to their final destination.
Our parents proceeded on to Atchi-sen,
Kansas, where the train cross-ed
the Missouri River by ferry and
then proceeded loo, miles farther.
Thus the immigrants arrived in
their new homes on the plains and
began to work and build. They
also joined forces with the small
pioneer church here and thus gave
their children spiritual nurture.
Mother was a thoroughly reli-gious
soul (as was Father). She
believed in the efficacy of prayer.
The most commonplace matters as
well as the most marvelous an-swers
to prayer.
She had early learned to love
the church and the kingdom.
While she was still a girl the re-vival
spirit swept over her home
community in Sweden. When
OLYMPIAN
From the misty gray of dawning
cold
To the early gray of evening old
We slave.
We find the news and dump it out
What care we if rabbles rout . .
We can run!
ROSES IN DECEMBER
He sent her flowers. Three
dozen roses. Red roses signify—
well.
She waited all vacation for him
to drop in. He never showed up.
AROMA AND SMELLING
.."Hello. Is your building located
between Aroma and Smelling . . .
I thought so. It stinks!"
And how! We hear the place
was blue with fumes Saturday
night after the "Rocky" game. A
culprit . . some ferric sulfide . . .
and a pungent sense of humor.
HELSING'S TUNE
"Sorry, folks, we're out of gas!"
This time it happened on the Men-dota
bridge about two in the wee
hours.
Sometimes we wonder
Indeed we do,
If the things we hear
Are really true.
FOR INSTANCE
That Miss Johnson "fell for a
certain someone at the Frosh skat-ing
party.
That Howie Olson "blitzed" the
party with 17 skating partners.
(From the gals we hear he's "all-right!
!")
coldness and lethargy prevailed
among the religious leaders of the
country and persecution followed
any effort to arouse the conscious-ness
of men to greater piety and
Christlike living, the revival fires
burned brightly here and there.
Many heard the call of the Spirit
and among these was Mother.
After entering upon this Way,
she set her face steadfastly. All
That Mrs. Nylof was sufficient
to the task of breaking up the "Get
your man" club last Saturday as its
first (and last?) session convened
in cell 212 and continued thru the
bewitching hour.
DONN E RB L ITZ EN
He was walking along the Sem
building . . minding his own busi-ness,
you understand .. . . when
pop! and we mean bottle, smack
atop his head!
ON THE TRAIL
The girls were talking (as
usual). Each gal bragged up her
own state. Suddenly all eyes were
on Betty White. "Yea, but you
should see Colorado!"
N. Z.—"Oh, Colorado's a no
man's land."
B. W.—"Sure, why did you think
I came up here!"
FASTEST THING ON RAILS
Five girls hanging over the ban-nister
at the girl's dorm working
up "steam" over Al Walker, as
Dean Johnson listened to their loco-motive.
(Unknown to them of
course.'
SAVAGELY SPEAKING
We've raised our warhoop
Scalped the lot
We've wasted word
And not gun-shot.
Pass the peace-pipe
Send it round,
Then bury it under
An Indian mound.
—by CHIEF ASKME and
BRAVE ILLTELL
her days she lived a thoroughly
consecrated life. In the home, in
the church and community, she
made her influence felt.
. This brief tribute is paid to a
devoted mother, a loyal Christian,
a faithful follower of the Master.
Her course is now finished. In
glory we shall see her "in the
morning."
—A. J. Wingblade.
Warhoop by Wahoo
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I am not writing of Time in the
abstract, such as is shared by all
living things, but of YOUR time,
that which belongs to you as an in-dividual
and for which you alone
are responsible.
Each one of us is alloted a cer-tain
amount of time; this amount
is fixed and is as definite a quanity
as anything else you might pos-sess..
It, however, is not like your
other possessions such as goods or
money. You may have a certain
amount of money in the bank, and
when you have spent this, you may
by your own efforts obtain more,
You may be wasteful with your
possessions because you know
there is more to be had.
Not so with your time. You can-not
say. "I will add one year or one
hour to my life." Some have of-.
fered a King's ransom for a few
hours of life, but life cannot be
purchased. True, we say that by
careful living we can prolong life,
but this does not change the mat-ter
for in God's sight who knows
the end from the beginning, your
history is already written. Nor is
this "fatalism". God has not de-creed
that anyone shall live so
many years and no more, no less,
It simply means that God knows
the span of your life.
Then, too, you may get more
money than you need; You may
accumulate a surplus of money,
food, or clothing. Not so with
YOUR TIME. You do not know
nor do you have any way of finding
out how much time is at your dis-posal;
nor can you control its tlow.
It is being measured off to you in
seconds, minutes, hours days,
weeks, months, and years. Day
and night, while you wake, while
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you sleep, while you work or play
time goes on. You may stop the
clock but the meter of time ticks
on just the same.
The amount of time at your dis-posal
may be a few short years,
or it may be three score years and
ten and even four score years yet
only a small portion of these years
are suitable for working out your
life span.
The first ten years are carefree
and irresponsible years. In these
years you have, unconsciously, ac-cumulated
a great store of know-ledge
about things in general but
without ,coordinatiion. In the next
ten years, you discover your in-dividuality
and begin your dicta-torship.
While for the most of
you the cares of life still rest upon
father and mother, you have ideas
and plans of your own; the future
stretches out long before you and
time means little to you.
The next twenty years are years
of adjustment. The duties of life
have been thrust upon you; the
safeguards which were thrown
about you in the first twenty years
are now withdrawn and you begin
to realize that there are other peo-ple
in the world besides yourself.
Expectations makes the beginning
of these years joyous and wonder-ful.—
still time means little, you
have lots of it ahead of you so it is
often spent recklessly.
We have said that these were
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what you have planned and what
you have undertaken. A feeling of
maturity and realization of age and
the seriousness of life may sudden-ly
come upon you. It may come
through some unexpected respon-sibility
placed upon you by your
success or your failure. It may
come throngh some great sorrow,
"Life is like that." You have now
used forty years of your allotment.
If your span is three score years,
you have now only one third of it
left in, which to finish your life's
work. If you have done your best,
the next ten or even twenty ad-ditional
years which may be grant-ed
you, will bring a rich reward for
your labors. Do you see how valu-able
YOUR TIME is and why you
should be careful how you use it?
And while you are realizing the
value of YOUR time, do not forget
that those with whom you asso-ciate
have a like responsibility as
yourself. Be careful not to encour-age
them to waste THEIR time.
But it is a more serious matter to
rob them of their time by impos-ing
yourself upon them, perhaps at
the telephone, in their room, on in
the library. Be courteous; find
out whether the friend has time
which he ought to spare for your
visit. Your friend may gladly
share the candy with you but he
would not expect you to eat the
whole box! So with his time. If
he grants yon an hour, don't take
the whole evening.
Some time, you may have to pro-tect
yourself. If some one were
taking your money you would not
hesitate to remind his that it is
yours. So it is with your time.
All of your friends are courteous,
but not all of them are thoughtful.
So, if your friend is taking time that
should be given to your duties you
should have the courage to kindly
tell him that you have work that
must be done and that you will
have to continue the visit some
other time. If he is a good friend,
he will respect your wishes and re-spect
you for preventing him from
doing a thing which he would not
knowingly do. Thus we can "bear
one other's burdens" and there will
be time to play and a time to work
and the joy of life will be fuller
and sweeter.
Yours affectionately,
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Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Indians Sock
Austin 37-35
Jubilant, but not overconfident,
over their Rochester win, the
Bethel boys travelled south to Aus-tin
for their first Conference tilt
on a foreign court. Notwithstand-ing
the fact that they were not on
their home floor, the fighting In-dians
came through with a 37-35
victory over their hosts. This
victory coupled with Concordia's
57-55 loss at the hands of a strong
Worthington team placed the In-dians
and their backyard Concor-dia
rivals in a tie for second place.
The contest proved to be one of
the most thrilling tilts ever played
by a Bethel team as the Adam men
clicked to perfection to run up a
first quarter lead of 17-6. The
Austin lads were far from licked
though, and behind their pace-set-ter,
Gavin, they retaliated with a
stunning second quarter rally to
send them into a 23-21 halftime
lead.
The entire second half found the
two teams fighting furiously for
the lead with the score never more
than two points apart. The Austin
quintet knotted the count at 35-all
with just one minute to play.
In a scuffle that followed, the
Meatpackers again gained posses-sion
of the ball and set up a de-liberate
passing attack in hopes
of gaining a free throw. The plan
was of no avail however. , as Gene
Nyman tied up the opposing cen-ter
with just ten seconds of play-ing
time left.
In the jump that followed. "Pud"
Anderson grabbed the ball for the
Indians and threw downcourt to
Shine Swanson who let fly with a
shot from far out in the court
that split the hemp for an all-im-portant
two points that meant vic-tory
. The game ended before the
Austin men could put the ball into
play.
Austin (35) (37) Bethel
Haskins (16) Swanson
Gahagan (2)
(7) Anderson
Decker (7)
(14) Nyman
Johnel (9)
Finke
Gavin (17)
Halvorson
For Austin—Stevens, White; for
Bethel—E. Johnson, Lawrence.
Any Bonds Today
(Continued from page 1)
upon which this country was
founded. The faculty has been co-operating
wonderfully in buying
bonds as well as a great many
savings stamps. Don't forget to
see Mr. 11 E. Nelson at your
earliest convenience to buy your
share of "Bonds and Stamps for
Freedom."
Free Throws
Alarm Coach
Despite the fact that the Bethel
hoopers have lost two ball games
so far this season, one by a rather
decisive margin, they nevertheless
lead their opponents in total points
scored according to official figures
released following the Austin game.
In the six games included the
Bethelites ran up an aggregate
score of 260 points or 43.3 points
per contest while holding their
opponents to 223 counters or 37.2
points per tilt.
Undoubtedly the most alarming
item (to Coach Bill Adam at least)
is the fact that the Indians have
countered only 36 points from the
free throw line from 84 attempts.
This is a percentage of only .428.
Their opponents, on the other
hand, have dunked 45 tosses out of
99 chances for a percentage of .455
which isn't a great deal better.
The Bethelites also lead in per-sonal
fouls committed with 90 mis-cues
charged against them in the
six games while their opponents
have committed only 75.
Fast-breaking Glen Swanson con-tinues
to lead the squad in indivi-dual
scoring with an impressive
total of 102 point or an average
of seventeen points per game.
Next in line is pivotman Gene
Nyman with 53 counters. Haddon
Anderson leads in the personal
fouls column with fifteen fouls
charged against him.
Below is a summary of the
figures through the Austin game
listing field goals, free throws
made, free throws attempted, total
points, and personal fouls.
FG FTM FTA TP PF
Swanson 46 10
22 102 13
Nyman 20 13
27 53 12
Anderson 12 5
13 29 15
E. Johnson 11 3
6 25 14
Halvorson 8 1
2 17 11
Lawrence 8 1
4 17 7
Hammerbeck 3 1
1 7 1
Gustafson 3 0
0 6 3
Finke 1 1
2 3 8
Thompson 0 1
4 1 4
Bergerud 0 0
3 0 1
G. Johnson 0 0
0 0 1
Meditations
(Continued from page 1)
a situatiion similar to which the
revengeful and power-mad philoso-phy
has brought our other "bro-ther?"
"Where is thy brother?" But at
the root of that question lies
another. The same that God
asked Adam, "Where art thou?"
Art thou at the altar interceding
for thy brother? Art thou in the
highways and 'byways seeking for
thy brother? It is good to stop
and consider how we could serve
God and our fellow-men if we were
found faithful to our task, but it is
also well to consider the result of
our negligence when we are found
wanting in this point.
CONFERENCE STANDINGS
AS OF JAN 20th
Albert Lea 2 0 1.000
Worthington 1 0, 1.000
BETHEL 2 1 .667
Concordia 2 1 .667
Austin 1 1 .500
Luther 1 2 .333
Rochester 0 1 .000
Bethany 0 3 .000
Debaters at Work
Those students actively engaged
in forensic activities are looking
forward to the Red River Valley
Tournament to be held in Concor-dia.
College, St. Paul, February 4,
5, and 6. A trip will be made to
Moorhead in February. Debaters
showing the most promise and
conscientious study of the question
will be allowed to go.
Fifty Join Frosh
More than fifty skaters joined in
the fun arranged by the Freshman
on January 16. Three of the group
were hailed as "sports grande."
They were the three occupants of
"No Man's Land."
Howie Olson proved the Beau
Brummel of the evening and skated
with seventeen girls. Lidia Hau-ser
finally got her speeders under
control and blitzed the rink with
various partners. Paul Theobald
and Jeanette Jenister almost re-ceived
a speed ticket, besides a
lecture!
Hot chili and coffee were served
in the girl's dormitory after the
skating session had been ad-journed.
Dr. Judd
(Continued from page 1)
the U. S., Britain, and the Nether-lands.
War in China by Japanese forces
has enjoyed any success it has
achieved, thanks to Allied oil and
iron. It is Britain, America, and
the Netherlands who have made
China suffer.
When Japan entered China the
U. S. should have been warned. An
independent friendly China was es-sential
to American protection
from Russia and Japan.
China was only first base in the
tremendous ball game Japan
planned. The Asiastic-continent
was the second base. Complete
naval control of the Pacific and
Pacific land was her third goal.
Her home run base? America of
course.
Dr. Judd suggested in deep irony
that giving California, Oregon, and
Washington to the Japanese would
satisfy them—at least till they had
settled the land, "I think the
Japanese could make something
even of California if they were
given the chance." said Dr. Judd,
after commenting on Oriental in-dustry.
Medico Fall
Places Indians
Paul Larson Introduced
As Booster Club Leader
Bethel's rejuvenated hoopers
jumped right back into the confer-ence
race last week as they came
through with their first conference
victory over Rochester. It was
with a new spirit that the Bethel-ites
chalked up a 43-30 win over
the Rochester quintet. Not only
did the ,.hoopers come ((through
with a well-earned victory but the
student body turned out behind
their new yell king Paul Larson
and vocalized heartily in a fine
display of organized cheering.
The game began with Bethel tak-ing
the lead and continuing to hold
an edge over the Medicos through-out
the first quarter. Coach
Adam's quintet retired at the half
with a 21-14 lead over the visitors,
but a determined third quarter
rally narrowed the margin to just
four points before the Indians
really turned on the heat.
It was at this time that the
Indian forward line of Shine Swan-son,
and "Pud" Anderson and Gene
Nyman really went to work and in
short order boosted the Bethel lead
to thirteen points as the final gun
went off.
Leading the scoring attack for
the Bethelites was Shine Swanson
with 18 points and Gene Nyman
with 12 counters. Outstanding
point-getter for the visiting Medi-cos
was Skyhawk who totalled 8
points.
Rochester (30) .... .. (43) Bethel
Lenton (5)
(18) Swanson
Skyhawk (8)
(8) Anderson
Costello (3)
(12) Nyman
Starz Finke
Britzins (5) Halvorson
For Rochester — Murphy (1),
Bannon (1), Zimmerman (6), Ja-cobson
(6) ; for Bethel—G. John-son,
Thompson, E. Johnson.
SPECIAL
0. K. Dane Larson . . . we won't
mention Saturday and all day Sun-day
to Charlotte!
COMING BB GAMES
Jan...30 Sioux Falls JC there
" 31 *Worthington JC there
Feb. 5 Macalester Frosh "
" 7 *Bethany JC here
" 10 Farm School here
" 13 *Albert Lea tC there
" 18 *Concordia JC there
" 27 *Bethany JC there
" 28 *Luther JO there
* Conference games.
For years Japan has used Hitler
as a stooge for enticing American
attention from the Pacific ocean
'while she armed herself for the
tempest to come. American negli-gence
and indifference in dealing
with the foreign situation may be
held as great a cause in the pre-sent
war as Axis aggressiveness.